* Mexico: According to the Government Accountability Office only two percent of U.S. counternarcotics aid under the Merida Initiative has been sent to Mexico. * Chile: Thousands of Chileans honored the late folk singer Victor Jara who was tortured and killed days after a 1973 military coup.
* Colombia: At a conference in Colombia the U.N. warned that major cuts would be made to anti-landmine funds unless countries ante up and help.
* Cuba: U.S.-Cuba migration talks that resumed in July after years of suspension will be put on hold again until February.
Image – AP (“Soldiers guard next to a transportation warehouse where a tunnel was found, near the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.”)
Online Sources- Los Angeles Times, AP, Al Jazeera English, Voice of America
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